Improvement in bottle-stoppers



SAMUEL H. TIMMONS, OF LA FAYETTE, INDIANA.

uvuaovelw ENT IN BOTTLE-s'roPPl-:Rs-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5S,l53, dated September 18, 1866.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, SAMUEL H. TIMMoNs, ofLa Fayette, in the county of Tippecanoe and State ot' Indiana, have invented a new and useful Bottle-Stopper and Medicine-Gage and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which theinvention appertainsto make use of it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in whichy Figure l is an elevation. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal Avertical section.

- This consists of a base-piece adapted to be fastened to the cork or neck of a bott-le, and to receivea cup, which may be graduated and marked to indicate its capacity.

In the drawings, A is the neck of a bottle, and B is the cork. A hole in the latter permits the passage of the hollow screw-shank C of the base-piece D, whose tlange E permits the attachment of the rim of the cup F, which may have gradnation'marks according to its capacity.

It is designed to be used in traveling where a stimulantor corrective is required; also, in some cases, in pharmacy whereit is not desired to contaminate a graduated glass with a fetid drug, but especially7 to administer stated quantities of the medicine contained in the bottle. For this purpose it will be constantly convenient, and may be made of any size and capacity, to suit circumstances, holding drains or ounces or fractions of the same, the graduation being in the interior if the cup be of metal, or blown or cut on its exterior if the cup be of glass, the material and quality, as well as the shape, varying with the purpose and convenience. y

be 'slipped into`or screwed into the cork.; or a ilange on its lower end may be slipped over the cork, the central aperture in the basepiece being maintained, whereby the liquid in the bott-le is transferred to the cup.

The device may be applied to a bottle ofany size without any change in the construction or size ot the receptacle, shank, or other part.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. `A cup graduated or otherwise fitting a base-piece to be attached to the cork or neck of a bottle of any size.

2. The base-piece provided with an entering-shank for insertion into a cork and witha ange for the recept-ion of the-cup, substaniall y as described.

3. A graduated cup attached to the stopper l or neck of a bottle', for the purpose described. To the above specication of my improved bottlestopper and medicine-cup I have signed myhand this 5th of September, 1866.

i SAMUEL'H. TIMMONS.

Witnesses: SoLoN G. KEMoN,

J AMES L. EwIN. 

